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Vegetal vs Vegetan - What's the difference?

vegetal | vegetan |

As a verb vegetal

is to vegetate.

As a noun vegetan is

the common term for vegetable-tanned leather this is typically cow skin tanned using tannins derived from plant materials rather than chemicals produces a stiffer leather that takes tooling very well, but is easily damaged by water without further treatment.

vegetal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • *, III.2.1.i:
    • Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […].
  • Pertaining to vegetables or plants.
  • (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, chiefly, botany) Any vegetable organism.
  • * Burton
    • This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.
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    vegetan

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • The common term for vegetable-tanned leather. This is typically cow skin tanned using tannins derived from plant materials rather than chemicals. Produces a stiffer leather that takes tooling very well, but is easily damaged by water without further treatment.
  • A synthetic microfibre, intended to be used as a vegan substitute for leather.
  • * 2006 , "Eco hero: Galahad Clark", Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 12, 2006
    • Today, its shoes are made from 'vegetan' and chrome-free leather (chrome is usually used in the dyeing process) for the uppers,

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